I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but for the guys too. I want to show everybody t….

Is there life in other families?.

I always wear the same thing onstage..

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their ki….

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens..

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these di….

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all..

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead..

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same….

I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops ….

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of sh….

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president..

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was b….

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd..

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!.

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are..

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs….

I'm a very conceptual writer..

Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes..

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone..

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids..